Presidents Trump and Petro meet at the White House, Brazil's Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva warns of AI's potential to be weaponized by organized crime for elections, and Costa Rica's president-elect Laura ...

The gang's days of playing Robin Hood to locals are over as it shifts its focus to the internaitonal cocaine trade.

Mexico's extradition request for several American citizens accused of smuggling stolen oil exposes an imbalance in the ...

Gang massacres in Mexico, Ecuador's hardline measures against drug violence, and legal action by victims of the US' missile ...

What comes next for Venezuela’s Cartel of the Suns? In this exclusive event, InSight Crime analyzes cocaine trafficking after Maduro.

The fight against organized crime is now at the center of a trade war that has erupted between Colombia and Ecuador.

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At least 121,695 people were murdered in Latin America and the Caribbean during 2024, putting the median homicide rate at around 20.2 per 100,000 people, about the same rate as 2023. The already ...

In March 2019, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro created a new wing of the Bolivarian Revolution political movement, the Peace Defender Squads (Cuadrillas Defensoras de la Paz). The squads, known by ...

In 2020, the US Department of Justice released a bombshell indictment charging sitting Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and other senior members of his government with “narco-terrorism” and ...

Venezuela’s organized crime groups and networks have evolved rapidly over the last decade, exploiting social and political crises that have wracked the country while benefiting from a criminally ...

Riding up the Quito River, trees claw their way to the edges of the riverbanks, forming an impenetrable forest wall lining the water. Then, suddenly, the world opens. The trees that walled us in have ...